Use this document to meet your legal requirements after a tenant (or contract-holder in Wales) pays a deposit.

You must protect the deposit using one of the government-approved schemes (set out in this document) and then give the tenants this notice and the scheme documents, within 30 days of them paying the deposit. This will give them the prescribed information that's required by law.

You must do this each time:

• There's a new landlord or a change in tenants.
• The terms of the tenancy have materially changed.
• The deposit moves to a different protection scheme.

At the same time, you must send this notice and the scheme documents to anyone who paid the deposit for the tenant, and their guarantors (if any).

In Wales, if a fixed-term is renewed with the same landlord, tenant and property, rather than moving to a periodic tenancy, check the rules of your chosen schemed provider to see if you need to re-protect or re-serve the prescribed information.